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A podcast on Maryland policy and politics. Stay in the know about how the General Assembly, Governor, state agencies, and county leaders affect the essential services that Marylanders depend on each and every day. Tune in for deep dives into state and county issues, special guests from around the state, and our world-famous dad jokes. We’ve got you covered on the Maryland Association of Counties’ Conduit Street Podcast.
Episode | Date |
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Breaking Ground on MD's New Court-Ordered Treatment Law
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May 17, 2024 |
Queen Anne's County's Boat Plastic Recycling Initiative
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May 10, 2024 |
Maryland Economy & Policy with Comptroller Brooke Lierman
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May 03, 2024 |
Maryland League of Conservation Voters' Impact on Local Gov
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Apr 26, 2024 |
Maryland Pulse Check with Dr. Mileah Kromer
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Water Water Everywhere - PFAS, Streams, and Sea Level Rise
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Apr 19, 2024 |
2024 Legislative Session Wrap Up
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Apr 12, 2024 |
SPECIAL: The Critical Case Against Cutting Local Road/Bridge Funding
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Apr 03, 2024 |
SPECIAL: Final Week of 2024 Session
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Apr 02, 2024 |
First Steps (and Next Steps) for the Fiscal Plan For FY25 and Beyond
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Mar 14, 2024 |
Counties Gain an Edge Through NACo
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Feb 16, 2024 |
What Do You Do About Fluky Formulas?
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Feb 09, 2024 |
Talking AI With Ben Yelin
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Feb 02, 2024 |
Smart Tech Development: Frederick’s Test Case
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Jan 25, 2024 |
We Break Down the New Budget
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Jan 19, 2024 |
2024 Session Kickoff and Preview of Workforce Issues
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Jan 12, 2024 |
Transportation Cuts, an "On the Ground" View
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Dec 22, 2023 |
Hot Topics for Cold Weather
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Dec 01, 2023 |
Checking In With the MD Chamber of Commerce
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Nov 17, 2023 |
2024 Legislative Initiatives
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Oct 27, 2023 |
Notes from North Carolina
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Oct 13, 2023 |
Fiscal Forecast: Warning or Watch?
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Oct 06, 2023 |
Winter’s Coming: Preparedness and Policy for Post-COVID Flu Season
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Sep 29, 2023 |
Election Law and Policy with Walter Olson
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Sep 22, 2023 |
The User Pays Principle – Good and Bad Applications
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Sep 15, 2023 |
Oversight and Obstacles: The Civilian Role in Police Accountability
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Sep 08, 2023 |
All Aboard: Transportation Commission Leaves the Station
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Sep 01, 2023 |
Tech, Cyber, AI, Oh My!
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Aug 25, 2023 |
The Blueprint Gets Its Check-up
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Aug 04, 2023 |
The Detention Dilemma: What We Ask of Local Jails (Part 2)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
Talking Housing with Tom Coale
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Jul 21, 2023 |
"Child Care Cliff" Looms Large
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Jul 14, 2023 |
Pittman Pitches on Schools/Housing Paradox
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Jul 07, 2023 |
Cannabis Comes to Town
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Jun 30, 2023 |
Commercial Real Estate: Apocalypse or Opportunity?
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Jun 23, 2023 |
Gears Still Turning in Annapolis
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Jun 09, 2023 |
Two Barriers to EV Adoption in MD
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Jun 02, 2023 |
Debt Limit: Deal or No Deal?
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May 19, 2023 |
The Detention Dilemma: What We Ask of Local Jails
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May 12, 2023 |
Goucher Poll Takes the MD Pulse
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May 05, 2023 |
School Funding: Session Flukes and the Future
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Apr 28, 2023 |
Evolving Policy on Public Safety Response
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Apr 21, 2023 |
Sine Die Send-Off & Session Recap
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Apr 14, 2023 |
County Budgets: The Annapolis Effects
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Mar 24, 2023 |
Creeping Up On Crossover
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Mar 17, 2023 |
The State of Play for School Funding
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Mar 10, 2023 |
Nod to The North Star State
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Mar 03, 2023 |
Local Leaders Talk Collaboration and Cannabis
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Feb 24, 2023 |
A Local Take on the State Budget Plan
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Feb 03, 2023 |
Early Session Observations
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Jan 27, 2023 |
New Session, New Faces
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Jan 13, 2023 |
Session Preview: Climate, Housing, and Fostering Firefighters
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Dec 23, 2022 |
Special Episode: No Pix X Conduit Collab
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Dec 16, 2022 |
Session Preview: Health, Public Safety, and More!
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Dec 09, 2022 |
Session Preview: Education (And More)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
Yes to Public Information, and Yes to Privacy Protections
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Nov 18, 2022 |
Elections and Reflections
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Nov 11, 2022 |
Launching Public Safety Comms w/FirstNet
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Oct 28, 2022 |
Back to Basics: MACo’s Top Issues
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Oct 14, 2022 |
Capital Debt, School Construction, and Bonds? And No, We Don't Mean 007
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Oct 07, 2022 |
Why Nobody Loves the Property Tax
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Sep 30, 2022 |
Crystal Ball on the State’s Budget Surplus and Process
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Sep 23, 2022 |
Assessing Agritourism and Agritainment
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Sep 16, 2022 |
Oversight, Opioids, and … Henry VI?
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Sep 02, 2022 |
Live From #MACoCon: SAS Talks Tech Tools for Tomorrow's Counties
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Aug 26, 2022 |
Digging Into Tax Caps in Maryland
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Aug 05, 2022 |
Our 70th Summer #MACoCon, a Preview
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Jul 29, 2022 |
State House Reporter Pamela Wood Sticks the Landing
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Jul 14, 2022 |
Safe and Smart Elections With David Levine
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Jul 08, 2022 |
Election Anxiety, and the Gas Tax Debate Returns
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Jun 24, 2022 |
Playing it Safe: The Latest on Infectious Threats
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Jun 10, 2022 |
Empire State of Mind
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Jun 02, 2022 |
(What’s the Deal With) Maryland’s Quirky Gas Tax
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May 27, 2022 |
Covering Lots of Ground With Rep. Trone
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May 18, 2022 |
Talking History and Policy with Preservation Maryland
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May 13, 2022 |
Session Wrap-Up: Health and Safety
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May 06, 2022 |
Session Wrap-Up: Paid Leave and Everything Education
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Apr 29, 2022 |
Post-Session Wrap-Up: Climate, Landfills, Ambulances
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Apr 21, 2022 |
And Down the Stretch They Come
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Apr 08, 2022 |
Everything Elections
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Mar 18, 2022 |
The Business and Policy of Cannabis
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Mar 04, 2022 |
Late-Ish Night With Luedtke
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Feb 25, 2022 |
The Boys Are Back in Town
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Feb 18, 2022 |
Senate Re-Opening, Selfies at the Polls?
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Feb 11, 2022 |
Back to School on Education Policy
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Feb 04, 2022 |
Opioid Deal in the Books, More Health and Legal Issues
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Jan 28, 2022 |
Flipping Through the Fiscal Plan
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Jan 21, 2022 |
Conduit Street Podcast: '22 Session Kickoff, EMS in Crisis
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Jan 14, 2022 |
Happy New Year, Let's Do The Numbers
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Dec 30, 2021 |
Cyber Headlines and Conference Highlights
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Dec 17, 2021 |
December Grab Bag
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Dec 03, 2021 |
Protecting Public Servants, Tying Up Loose Ends
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Nov 12, 2021 |
Back to Basics – MACo’s Top Issues
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Nov 05, 2021 |
Digging Deep Into the Opioid Deal
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Oct 29, 2021 |
Leadership - An Episode from the MACo Archives
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Oct 15, 2021 |
Elevating Emergency Management
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Oct 08, 2021 |
Maximizing Public Funds With three+one
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Oct 01, 2021 |
New School Year, New Problem: A Bus Driver Shortage
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Sep 24, 2021 |
The State House Beat, with Bryan Sears
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Sep 17, 2021 |
Headline Issues: Both Policy and Process
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Sep 10, 2021 |
Postcards from OC, Naptown, and DC
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Sep 03, 2021 |
Live from #MACoCon: Tanium Talks Cybersecurity
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Aug 20, 2021 |
Revisiting Redistricting
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Aug 13, 2021 |
Headlines: Infrastructure and Cybersecurity
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Jul 30, 2021 |
Live from the 2021 MD Land Preservation Conference
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Jul 16, 2021 |
Back to Real Summertime, Safely
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Jul 09, 2021 |
Teaching Through Troubled Times, w/MSEA
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Jun 25, 2021 |
Getting Real (Estate) With Maryland REALTORS
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Jun 18, 2021 |
Employer Issues Into the Recovery
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Jun 11, 2021 |
Politics and Policy with Professor Todd Eberly
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Jun 04, 2021 |
Data and Districts with Planning Sec. McCord
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May 21, 2021 |
Public Polling, Vax Hesitancy with Mileah Kromer
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May 14, 2021 |
We’re Back! Summer #MACoCon Is a Go
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Apr 30, 2021 |
Session Reflections, On to Budgets
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Apr 23, 2021 |
#AfterDark Late Session Rundown
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Apr 09, 2021 |
Budgeting in Tumultuous Times
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Apr 02, 2021 |
Session Reset: All the Big Issues
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Mar 26, 2021 |
Busy Week in Annapolis
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Mar 12, 2021 |
Mid-Session Musings, #AfterDark
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Mar 05, 2021 |
Overrides Overview... and what is "Rebasing" Anyway?
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Feb 19, 2021 |
#AfterDark: Vaccine Explanations and Session Updates
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Feb 12, 2021 |
#AfterDark, Take Two... Hot Topics
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Feb 05, 2021 |
#AfterDark Experiment #1
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Jan 28, 2021 |
Highlighting Healthcare
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Jan 22, 2021 |
Kicking Off the Strangest Session
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Jan 15, 2021 |
Revved Up, But Not Over Reassessments
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Jan 08, 2021 |
Fiscal Picture... Still Fuzzy
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Dec 18, 2020 |
Looking Ahead, and Leadership Tools
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Dec 11, 2020 |
Standing On a Corner, With a Friend From Arizona
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Nov 20, 2020 |
Bond Rating Basics
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Nov 13, 2020 |
Running Down the Results
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Nov 06, 2020 |
Capitalizing on Our Community Colleges
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Oct 30, 2020 |
Election Fun and Question One – With P.J. Hogan
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Oct 19, 2020 |
The Maryland Mindset, with Guest Mileah Kromer
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Oct 15, 2020 |
State Revenues: Looking Beyond the Headline
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Oct 09, 2020 |
2021 Top Issues: Put Public Health First — Protect Services and Promote Funding
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Oct 02, 2020 |
2021 Top Issues: Broadband Accessibility Act of 2021
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Sep 25, 2020 |
2021 Top Issues: Elections Fairness and Funding
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Sep 18, 2020 |
Legislators' Roadmap to Reconvene
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Sep 11, 2020 |
The Doctor Is In — A Follow-Up Visit
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Sep 04, 2020 |
Watching Washington... Still
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Aug 28, 2020 |
West Coast Swing
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Aug 21, 2020 |
Revisiting: Reopening, Relief, and Revenues
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Aug 13, 2020 |
A Conduit St Look at Pennsylvania Avenue
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Jul 30, 2020 |
Wrestling With Reopening
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Jul 24, 2020 |
Big Issues, Big Data
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Jul 16, 2020 |
Budget Balancing Breakdown
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Jul 09, 2020 |
A View From the Senate
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Jun 26, 2020 |
The State of Policing
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Jun 18, 2020 |
Unemployment, From Every Angle
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Jun 12, 2020 |
Elections - What a Week
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Jun 05, 2020 |
State of the Podcast
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May 29, 2020 |
Crisis Communications
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May 22, 2020 |
Quiet "Veto Day" Still Makes Noise
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May 15, 2020 |
KEEP CALM and COME to Your CENSUS!
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May 08, 2020 |
Health and Humanity Amidst a Pandemic
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May 01, 2020 |
Double Take on Kirwan Trigger, Cares Funding, and More!
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Apr 24, 2020 |
Running the Numbers
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Apr 17, 2020 |
Revisiting the Bag Ban... and Beyond
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Apr 10, 2020 |
Holding Elections Amid a Pandemic
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Apr 08, 2020 |
Maryland's Wacky Budget Process
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Apr 03, 2020 |
Liberty in Trying Times
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Mar 31, 2020 |
All Hands on Deck
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Mar 27, 2020 |
Abrupt Ending, Awareness Everywhere
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Mar 20, 2020 |
Everything Coronavirus – Practices, Policy, and the Public
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Mar 13, 2020 |
Blueprint On Fast Track: What’s In? What’s Out?
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Mar 06, 2020 |
Point of Sale Policies, Pondering Polls, and More!
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Feb 28, 2020 |
Blueprint Ballyhoo, Sizing Up Services, and Tricky Tech
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Feb 21, 2020 |
Kirwan Blueprint Bill and Tidbits Around Town
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Feb 14, 2020 |
Blueprint Buildup, Local Focus, and Cranky Cancels
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Feb 06, 2020 |
Word on the (Conduit) Street
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Jan 31, 2020 |
"Supercharging" School Construction
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Jan 24, 2020 |
First Look at the Fiscal Plan
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Jan 17, 2020 |
2020 Session Preview
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Jan 10, 2020 |
Special Edition: Live from Charm City
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Dec 20, 2019 |
Conference Chatter, Tax Talk, Fiscal Fodder, and More!
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Dec 13, 2019 |
Live at #MACoCon: New Technology, New Policy – The Ever-Shrinking Island of Cable Television
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Dec 09, 2019 |
Kirwan Funding Proposal, Criminal Justice Issues, and More!
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Nov 21, 2019 |
Kirwan Update, E-Book Embargo, Ridesharing Regs, and More!
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Nov 14, 2019 |
Interesting Election Tidbits, Kirwan Chatter, and More!
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Nov 07, 2019 |
Senate Shuffle, Health Headlines, Cleaner Climate, and More!
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Oct 25, 2019 |
Kirwan Formulas and Finishing Touches
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Oct 18, 2019 |
First Look at Kirwan Costs, 2020 Census Grants, and More!
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Oct 10, 2019 |
School Funding Focus, Tricky Tax Issues, and More!
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Oct 03, 2019 |
Goucher Poll, Fiscal Check-Up, and What's Up with Kirwan?
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Sep 27, 2019 |
2020 Initiatives and More!
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Sep 20, 2019 |
Leadership, Labor Day, and Lunchboxes
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Sep 12, 2019 |
Live at the National Folk Festival
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Sep 09, 2019 |
Oklahoma Opioid Opinion, Bay Bridge Buzz, and Kirwan Catch-Up
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Aug 30, 2019 |
Conference Chatter, Snowballing School Debate, and More!
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Aug 22, 2019 |
Live at #MACoCon with MDP & the US Census
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Aug 18, 2019 |
School Funding, Fiscal Report Card, and Podcast Picks
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Aug 01, 2019 |
By the Numbers: #MACoCon
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Jul 23, 2019 |
Preemption Tension
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Jul 19, 2019 |
Happy New (Fiscal) Year and What Counts as a Meeting? You Might Be Surprised...
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Jul 11, 2019 |
Supremes Speak, Fiscal Follow-Up, and More!
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Jun 28, 2019 |
Budget Battle, SALT Smackdown, and More!
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Jun 20, 2019 |
Electric Vehicle Shock (On Revenues), School Funding Formulas, and More!
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Jun 14, 2019 |
270 Traffic, 51 States, and 1,500 Lawsuits
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Jun 07, 2019 |
Sediment, Cyber, Schools, and More!
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May 31, 2019 |
Signing off, Cleaning up, and Checking on Tech
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May 24, 2019 |
Eye on Annapolis... and Beyond
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May 16, 2019 |
Key Court Cases, City Shuffle, Maryland Shines in South
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May 10, 2019 |
Madame Speaker, Mister Mayor
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May 03, 2019 |
Complete Count Conversation
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Apr 26, 2019 |
After-Session Afterthoughts
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Apr 18, 2019 |
Session-End Summary, Toasting the "Coach"
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Apr 12, 2019 |
Pre-K-Through-12, Prescription Drugs, Preakness, and More!
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Apr 05, 2019 |
"Spring Cleaning" Policy Roundup
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Mar 29, 2019 |
Major Issues Mashup
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Mar 21, 2019 |
Dueling Budgets, Solar, Septics, General Issue Updates, and More!
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Mar 15, 2019 |
Breaking Down the Kirwan “Blueprint”
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Mar 08, 2019 |
Committee Crunch Time, Public Safety Pop-Ups, and More!
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Mar 01, 2019 |
Weekly Annapolis Roundup, Prickly Projects, Personal Privilege, and Public Polling
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Feb 22, 2019 |
Brinkley on Budgets, Amazon's About-Face, Action on Airbnb, and More!
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Feb 15, 2019 |
Session Shakeup, School-Year Suspense, and More!
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Feb 08, 2019 |
State of the State, Party Priorities, Jail-Based MAT, and More!
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Feb 01, 2019 |
Kirwan Commission Wraps 2018 Work, Fiscal Mother Lode, and the Latest from #MDGA19
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Jan 25, 2019 |
Clues to Hogan's Budget Proposal, Economic Uncertainty Looming, and the Latest from #MDGA19
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Jan 18, 2019 |
2019 Session Preview
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Jan 11, 2019 |
Delayed or Derailed? What's Next for Kirwan? #MACoCon and More!
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Jan 01, 2019 |
Kirwan's Kryptonite, Stadium Squeeze, WotUS, and More!
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Dec 21, 2018 |
Major School Construction Proposal, Clues to the Kirwan Cost Split, and More!
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Dec 13, 2018 |
#NG911 Report, Kirwan Testimony, Ranked-Choice Voting, #MACoCon, and County Awards
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Dec 06, 2018 |
Spending Affordability, Volatile Revenues, & a Touch of Kirwan
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Nov 29, 2018 |
Election Tidbits, Congressional District Dilemma, and Amazon Is Coming! ... Sort of
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Nov 15, 2018 |
Special Edition: General Election Roundup
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Nov 08, 2018 |
Kirwan Wrap Up, Early Voting Numbers, Election Preview, and High-Stakes Ballot Questions
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Nov 02, 2018 |
School Funding Update, #NG911 Commission Convenes, 21st Century Libraries, and more!
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Oct 25, 2018 |
Complete Streets, Small Cell Update, Maryland Health Connection, & Prescription for Change
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Oct 19, 2018 |
Split the Check for School Construction? Not So Fast...
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Oct 11, 2018 |
New Laws Take Effect, Internet Regs Spark Latest Clash Over States' Rights, & More!
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Oct 04, 2018 |
Revenue Write-Up, 2020 Census, Listener Mailbag, & More!
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Sep 27, 2018 |
Headlines & Happenings - Education, #NG911, Goucher Poll, Disaster Response, & Small Cells
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Sep 21, 2018 |
Pondering Potential "Pay-Fors"
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Sep 13, 2018 |
Keeping up with Kirwan
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Sep 06, 2018 |
Digging Deeper on "Elevating Teaching," Candidate Shuffle, & More!
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Aug 31, 2018 |
Smart Growth, Bay 'Pollution Diet,' & #MACoCon Recap
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Aug 23, 2018 |
Live at #MACoCon with Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger
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Aug 20, 2018 |
Maryland's Opioid Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?
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Aug 09, 2018 |
Introducing the DLS Podcast
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Aug 08, 2018 |
What's up with the Bay? SALT Suit, & Recruiting Top-Tier Teachers
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Aug 02, 2018 |
New tech Driving New Policy - Part Two
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Jul 27, 2018 |
On the Road with MACo, "Staggering" Price of Pre-K, & Primary Election Roundup
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Jul 19, 2018 |
New Tech Driving New Policy - Part One
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Jul 10, 2018 |
Beating the Heat, Janus v. AFSCME, & Primary Races We're Still Watching
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Jul 03, 2018 |
Special Edition: 2018 Primary Election
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Jun 27, 2018 |
SCOTUS Sounds Off, Early Voting Boom, Riveting Races, & More!
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Jun 21, 2018 |
Primary Ballot Battle, Kirwan 2.0, Wynne Whammy, & #MACoCon
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Jun 08, 2018 |
Procurement, Property Taxes, & Public Works
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May 10, 2018 |
Kirwan Commission, Take Two. Fiscal Forecast, Session Resources, & Interim Intrigue
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Apr 26, 2018 |
Sine Die Send-Off & Session Recap
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Apr 11, 2018 |
Sine Die Is Quickly Approaching... What's Locked Up? What's Still Lingering?
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Apr 06, 2018 |
School Construction Kerfuffle, Forest Bill In Limbo, Fending Off Hackers, & More!
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Mar 30, 2018 |
Post-Crossover Roundup, School Construction, School Safety, & More!
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Mar 23, 2018 |
"Crossover" Coming, Fiscal Follow Up, Body Cameras Back-And-Forth, and More!
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Mar 15, 2018 |
Small Cells, Big Concerns. Fiscal Plan Coming Together, State Song Dilemma, & the Road Ahead
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Mar 09, 2018 |
Local Roads Funding "Deal," BRFA Hearings, Unpacking the Big School Construction Bill, & School Safety
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Mar 02, 2018 |
Conduit Street Podcast: Call If You Can, Text If You Must. Sunshine Laws, Attorney's Fees, #LIFT4MD, & Beer Wars
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Feb 23, 2018 |
County Collaboration on Tax Reform, Lockbox Redux, Employer Mandates, and Bad Docs
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Feb 16, 2018 |
9-1-1 Takes Center Stage, Huge Drop of Bills Introduced, Sick Leave Law Looms, and Senate Changes Afoot
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Feb 09, 2018 |
#FixtheFund, Opioid Litigation, Wave of HUR Bills, Local Aid Intrigue, and more!
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Feb 02, 2018 |
New Tax Analysis, Paid Leave Dilemma, Fiscal Outlook, and More!
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Jan 25, 2018 |
Tax Relief Proposals, Governor's Budget... and More!
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Jan 20, 2018 |
The General Assembly Is in Session!
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Jan 12, 2018 |
Session 101
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Jan 04, 2018 |
Small Cell Broadband/Election Issues
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Dec 18, 2017 |
Solar, Solar... Everywhere?
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Dec 01, 2017 |
The Power of Partnership
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Nov 17, 2017 |
We're Back! Updates On School Funding, Federal Tax Reform, & Maryland's State Fiscal Picture
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Nov 09, 2017 |
Education Funding In Maryland
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Oct 13, 2017 |
How Would Federal Tax Reform Affect Maryland?
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Oct 05, 2017 |
MACo's 2018 Legislative Initiatives
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Sep 28, 2017 |